Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2127 Heng King Yuanwu, Six Jia Divine Soldiers

Despite the greatsword's bizarre performance, Su Dingfang was no longer in a hurry and allowed the soldiers to rest for a day before setting off again.

After all, although they traveled by troop carrier, they didn't have to run on their own two legs.

However, even in later times, long journeys by car can be tiring, let alone the experience of riding in a troop carrier, which is far inferior to those vehicles in later times.

Therefore, even if they were traveling by car, the soldiers' morale would not be high due to the constant travel day and night without a moment's rest.

Even with their troops at the gates of Jiandu, Su Dingfang and Hulü Guang were not in a hurry to breach the city.

The meat is already in their mouths; they can eat it whenever they want for now, there's no need to rush it in just a few days.

After all, at this point they were not in a hurry to attack the city, but were more interested in the remaining troops of the Great Sword Dynasty.

If Su Dingfang could lure the army from the north of the Great Sword over, he would be happy to do so.

Can the difficulty of annihilating 30,000 troops after luring them out be compared to the difficulty of annihilating the enemy in a siege? The costs involved are also on a completely different level.

Su Dingfang was fortunate to have Xie Jun's 30,000 troops. Thanks to Xie Jun's clever maneuvering and his subsequent surrender after realizing he was in a dead end, otherwise, if those 30,000 troops had been in a fortified city, it would have taken at least 10,000 to 20,000 troops to take them down.

Su Dingfang did not believe that his ability to capture 30,000 men with almost no losses was due to his own skill, but rather entirely to the assistance of his opponents.

Among the greatswords, Xie Jun is already an oddball, so Su Dingfang can't expect another one like him to emerge.

Sword Capital is already completely surrounded by them. This is an open conspiracy. Unless the troops in the north of Great Sword have ulterior motives, they will come.

In fact, at this time, Sword Emperor Yuan Heng had already taken the initiative to issue twelve gold tablets in succession, urging the troops in the north to return south to provide reinforcements as soon as possible.

At this time, Jiandu was already fully armed, but unfortunately, the Great Sword was short of iron, and even if the people in the city were forcibly conscripted, there were not enough armor.

Even the strongest army of greatsword warriors only has one thousand heavily armored soldiers, while the remaining four thousand are light infantry. Don't they want to fully arm the remaining four thousand? It's just that they don't have the ability.

Greatsword has no shortage of food, but there are no mines in the country!

This was almost the opposite of the dynasties in the southwest of Da Cang. There, there was no shortage of minerals, so the soldiers were well-equipped, almost as well as the imperial army. However, they lacked food and could not sustain a large army.

The cost of maintaining one heavy infantryman is enough to maintain several light infantrymen. Without provisions, an army cannot develop. Both are indispensable.

If the dynasties in these two regions could be combined, their national strength would increase by several times.

Sword warriors, though also known as Ironwall Swordsmen, derive their name from their origins as the royal guard, not from the fact that they were a heavily armored unit.

Of the five thousand men, only one-fifth were heavily armored soldiers, so they could hardly be considered a true heavily armored army.

Therefore, most of the armed civilians were only given a rifle and nothing else. Only a lucky few were given a set of leather armor.

Of course, the quality of this leather armor cannot compare to the standard leather armor of the seven great dynasties. The standard leather armor of the seven great dynasties used iron for vital areas. While leather armor's defense is somewhat inferior to iron armor, it doesn't mean it's completely ineffective.

However, this batch of greatswords was intended for civilians, not the military, and was essentially pure leather armor.

Therefore, these people have limited combat power.

However, for Yuan Heng, who had just been forcibly placed on the throne, only this frantic conscription of civilians into the army could give him some peace of mind. Regardless of these people's fighting ability, at least the sheer scale of the campaign was there.

Just when Yuan Heng could finally feel a little at ease, his uncle Yuan Wu led a thousand swordsmen from the Bashan Sword Field back to the capital to help him on the very day Yuan Ji left.

Yuan Wu rarely returned to the capital, and even when he did, he wouldn't stay for long. As a result, Yuan Heng had virtually no memory of his uncle.

However, national crises reveal the hearts of the people, and times of turmoil reveal the loyalty of ministers.

At a time when the nation was on the verge of collapse and in turmoil, his royal uncle returned, bringing with him a thousand swordsmen. Yuan Heng was naturally moved to tears and immediately elevated the uncle's title to that of a king, bestowing upon him the title of King Heng.

Yuan Wu is one of the few system characters implanted within the Great Sword Dynasty. With the strength of a half-step Celestial, he can already be considered the number one expert in the Great Sword Dynasty.

In imperial dynasties, the forces of the martial arts world are generally tightly controlled. However, many dynasties do not necessarily have this level of control.

It was only in recent years, with Yuan Wu becoming the master of the Bashan Sword Field, that the Great Sword's control over the martial arts world increased dramatically.

Within the Great Sword Dynasty, the Bashan Sword Arena holds a remarkably privileged position.

This sect is not only the most powerful sect in the martial arts world of Greatsword, but it is also related to the strongest army of sword warriors in the Greatsword Dynasty.

This mightiest army of swordsmen was jointly created by the Great Sword Dynasty and the Bashan Sword Sect, the most prestigious martial arts sect within its territory. The swordsmen's techniques were simplified versions of those techniques, specifically created by the Bashan Sword Sect for the army.

This is precisely why sword warriors are at their strongest in street battles or in the mountains and forests.

Their specialty is small-scale coordinated attacks, and this army is quite adept at besieging highly skilled individuals.

Correspondingly, this force performed relatively poorly in large-scale battlefield operations.

The swordsmen of Bashan Sword Field are not only highly skilled in swordsmanship, but they are also the largest source of retainers for both civil and military officials throughout the Great Sword Dynasty, as well as one of the core sources of sword warriors.

Speaking of sword warriors, what pained Yuan Heng even more was that Yuan Ji not only forced him onto the throne and then left, but also took two thousand of the most elite sword warriors with him when he left.

Of the five thousand Sword Martial Kings, three thousand suffered heavy casualties in the previous Battle of Hedong. Although they were later replenished with reserves and a small number of swordsmen from the Bashan Sword Field, their combat strength was certainly no match for the remaining two thousand.

On Su Dingfang's side, in order to wait for the 30,000 troops from the north of the Great Sword to move south, he launched a half-hearted feint attack and did not really fight.

But the Claymore side started pulling off some crazy moves again!
There was a Taoist priest in Jiandu who boasted to everyone that he could create soldiers by throwing beans, and that these soldiers could become invisible. He claimed that if he were to recruit 7,777 regular soldiers, he could defeat the enemy. He also said that when the regular soldiers faced the enemy, they would not move, but would instead be used as divine soldiers, and would be invincible.

Somehow, this boastful talk reached the ears of Wang Zongxun, the garrison commander of Jiandu.

When Wang Zongxun heard about this, he was very surprised and thought that this Taoist priest might be the savior of the Great Sword. So he ridiculously recommended him to the court, saying that if this person were used, he could capture the two commanders of the Han army and wipe out the Han army.

Prince Yuanwu, the Great Sword Prince and also the master of the Bashan Sword Field, did not believe in this at all and publicly humiliated Wang Zongxun.

"Is the art of thievery as you say, truly as it is?"

Wang Zongxun was speechless and unable to answer the question.

However, King Yuanwu of Heng did not believe in this doctrine at all, but that did not mean that everyone else did not. He could control himself, but he could not control everyone else.

In particular, he had no control over Yuan Heng, who was the emperor.

Although he was forced into the position, the people in the court were all Yuan Ji's original team, and Yuan Heng simply didn't have time to cultivate his own faction.

However, although the people in the court listened to Yuan Ji more, now that Yuan Ji had fled, they could only listen to Yuan Heng, not Yuan Wu.

After all, even if an emperor is forced into a position, his status as emperor remains unchanged.

Even though many people thought that the Taoist priest was a fraud and the Six Jia Zheng Bing was a joke, some people still believed him, and among them was Emperor Yuan Heng.

According to the Taoist classic "Daozang", the Six Jia Zhengbing are incredibly powerful. They can summon wind, clouds, thunder, and lightning; they can destroy military camps; they can control wooden oxen and horses; they can make figures painted on walls move; they can make all kinds of plants bloom in winter; they can ward off water, fire, and weapons; and they can defeat an army of millions...

If there were truly six Jia soldiers at this time, they could easily deal with a group of ordinary people. No matter how many ordinary people there were, they would naturally be fearless and invincible.

But where in this world can one find a true soldier of the Six Armies?

When King Yuanwu of Heng saw that Yuan Heng actually believed in such a trick, and that he had pulled such a huge stunt for him when the country was on the verge of collapse, he immediately regretted bringing the swordsmen of the Bashan Sword Field back to help him.

If he had known he was such a hopeless case, wouldn't it have been better for him to hide in the background like Yuan Ji and seek peace?
"Your Majesty, if the Daoist priest truly possesses such abilities, why not demonstrate the divine weapon before Your Majesty, so that we may broaden our horizons!" King Heng Yuanwu suppressed his dissatisfaction and spoke with a gloomy face.

He planned to expose the Taoist priest's tricks with facts; once his true colors were revealed, he would simply cut him down with his sword.

How could this Taoist priest have no "cultivation" at all, given that so many people believe in him?
After ascending the throne, he personally set up a formation diagram in the palace, designating the two corners of the formation as the "Gate of Life" and the "Gate of Death".

After drawing the array diagram, he had someone place a cat and a mouse on the gates of life and death, respectively.

The cat entered the formation through the gate of life, and the mouse entered through the gate of death. Soon, the cat caught the mouse and ate it.

Next, they had a cat and a mouse placed on the Death Gate and the Life Gate respectively.

The mouse enters through the door of life, and the cat enters through the door of death, yet the cat can't find the mouse no matter what, letting it dart around it.

After the rehearsal was over, the Taoist priest spoke up triumphantly.

"If we use this method of warfare, our army will enter the path of survival, and the Han traitors will not be able to see us, and we can win."

Heng Wang Yuanwu could see that this formation actually contained military formation methods, and quite ingenious ones at that. The Taoist priest might not have mastered this military formation to a great degree, but it would be easy to fool some laymen.

Unfortunately, Emperor Yuan Heng and some of his ministers were fooled by this tactic.

Prince Yuanwu of Heng was weak and powerless in the court. How could he possibly oppose Yuan Heng when Yuan Heng was being misled?

Thus, following Yuan Ji's "abdication," Yuan Heng officially began his operations.

With Yuan Heng's support, the Taoist priest recruited the Six Jia Divine Soldiers extensively within the city, and the process went very smoothly, with many people signing up. However, he only needed 7,777 people.

The conditions for Taoist priests to recruit soldiers are that they do not care about the level of martial arts or the age of the person, as long as the year of birth matches the six Jia.

The six Jia are: Jiazi, Jiayin, Jiachen, Jiawu, Jiashen, and Jiaxu.

Many ordinary children and idlers transformed themselves into the Six Armor Divine Soldiers.

Even more remarkably, one of the prisoners in jail transformed himself into the commander of this Six Armor Divine Army.

Then, while it was still midday and Su Dingfang was having lunch, he suddenly received news that the Great Sword's troops had actually come out of the city to challenge them to battle.

"What is Greatsword doing?"

Are you trying to fool us?

Su Dingfang looked at those things dressed in a way that was neither human nor ghost, and was once again stunned by the greatsword's actions.

"Do not disturb me further with such trivial matters!"

Su Dingfang glared at Wei Ben's battalion in the front camp, telling him to deal with these people himself, and then went back to his camp to eat.

In just a few years, the Greatsword has become a joke.

Su Dingfang still remembered that during the Battle of Hedong, Da Jian was defeated by him, and not just once, but in a crushing defeat.

However, there are still a few heroic figures like Liang Jingtian among the sword army!
But what are all these things now?
Calling them "cowards" is an insult to cowards!

As for Wei Ben in the vanguard, he remained expressionless, ordering the archers and crossbowmen to coordinate a volley of arrows.

Then, a light cavalry unit was sent to sweep through the enemy lines, easily ending the battle.

As for the Taoist priest, he had already ridden away from the battlefield by this time.

Does he not know his own capabilities?

You can fool others with your boasts, but you can't fool yourself too, can you?
Damn it, all his boasting was just bragging. He really didn't expect that anyone would actually believe that stuff!
The key point is that quite a few people actually believe it!

However, at that time he had already been taken to the emperor, so what could he do?
If he were to say that he was just bragging, wouldn't he die on the spot?

Therefore, they can only continue to deceive people.

After he finished fooling around, he naturally gave himself a chance to get away.

For him, this match is an opportunity to extricate himself.

As for what happens to the greatsword later? Does it have anything to do with him spending half a copper coin?
Meanwhile, Yuan Wu on the city wall was clearly bulging with veins, barely managing to suppress the urge to strike that tyrannical emperor with his sword.

At this point, he could only console himself, after all, those who left the city were just ordinary people, or even some street ruffians, not real soldiers, much less the main force of sword warriors.

There's no other way; if I can't resolve Yuan Heng's situation, then I can only make peace with myself.

However, Yuan Wu obviously did not notice that his wife Ye Zhen behind him was looking at him with a glint in her eyes, and it was unclear what she was thinking.